Post #1445021
2025-12-24 21:37 UTC
@kissane This, and I want to look you in the eye as I say this, Erin, this is the best and most consequential thing you have ever written. [Of that subset of those things that I have seen.] I'll be returning to this article often.
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@vivtek@indieweb.social 2025-12-24 21:42
@kissane I would, incidentally, love to see your bibliography. I've been putting this research off (it's literally Tier 6 of my 6-tier research stack) but eventually I'll have something to say here (and, if all goes well, tools for making a difference).
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@vivtek@indieweb.social 2025-12-27 16:26
@kissane I've been thinking about this for three days now and I've only scratched the surface of how it relates to stuff I'm working on, but here's maybe my first usable insight. The meaning of a given term or concept is an entrenched semantic-memory trace that is abstracted from multiple events in episodic memory. But the weird thing about being linguistic creatures is that the episodic events our semantics are abstracted from